the wicked shall not be; and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it. (Ps. xxxvi. 2, 10.)
I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon: And I passed by, and lo, he was not; and I sought him, and his place was not found. (Ps. xxxvi. 35-36.)
The Folly of a Wicked Life
WHAT is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing. (Job xxvii. 8, 19.)
He shall not see destruction, when He shall see the wise dying; the senseless and the fools shall perish together. And they shall leave their riches to strangers. They are laid in the grave like sheep; death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning: and their help shall decay in hell from their glory. (Ps. xlviii. 10-11.)
As the tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more. And the years of the wicked shall be shortened. (Prov. x. 25, 27.)
God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride; but His eyes are upon his ways. They are: lifted up for a little while, and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken. (Job xxiv. 23-24.)
The Death of the Just
PRECIOUS in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. (Ps. cxv. 15.)
The souls of the just are in the hands of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, and their departure was taken for misery, and their going away from us, for utter destruction; but they are in peace. And though
